I Didn't Know I Fell Asleep (Robert Madu)

0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:34.960 How you feel an Elevation church. I tell you what, 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:39.680 I counted the highest honor and the privileged, highest privilege 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:42.479 really to be back here at Elevation. I do not 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:46.320 take this lightly. Tiffany took the words right out of 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:48.280 my mouth. I'm not a guest here. I am family. 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:50.479 I hope you know that I'm your cousin from the 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:55.560 great country of Texas. And it's an honor to be here, 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:59.440 especially because of what this house means to me, the 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.040 impact that this house has made on my life, on 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:04.880 my wife's life, on our church's life, and so it's 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.640 always an honor to come back and to make a 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.120 deposit into this amazing church. Do you know how blessed 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.679 you are to be a part of this church? Come on, 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:14.520 I hope you know that that deserves more than a 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:21.480 golf class. You are not just blessed, you're spoiled, absolutely spoiled. 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:23.080 And I hope you know the grass doesn't get greet 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:25.399 or anywhere else. You're at the right church at the 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:27.959 right time, at the right place, and this is just 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:31.760 evidence of God's hand in his favor. But also because 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:36.920 you have incredible leaders and incredible pastors. In this month 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:40.720 that we take a moment to pause and appreciate pastors. 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:44.280 How many you know we have to pause to appreciate 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:48.480 Pastor Stephen and Holly Ferdick for who they are. I'm 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:53.240 telling you, the leaders they are and the people they are. 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:55.080 Come on, would you just let them know how much 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:59.840 you love and appreciate them? Elevations. You can do better 0:01:59.880 --> 0:02:04.120 than that across every location. Let's give honor to what 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:06.560 honors do. Please, don't ever take the kid God has 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:16.040 given you for granted. I fall short of words to 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:19.920 adequately express what Pastor Stephen and Holly mean to my 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:22.600 wife and I, but I'll steal something I heard a 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:28.240 Swifty say. True though I heard a Swifty say recently, 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:32.520 I feel sorry for Taylor Swift, I said, what, So, Yeah, 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:35.720 I feel sorry for Taylor Swift because Taylor Swift doesn't 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:39.040 know what it's like to experience a Taylor Swift concert. 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:41.560 That's what I heard a Swift he say. So I'll 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.480 say that I feel sorry for Pastor Stephen and Holly 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.000 Ferdy because they don't know what it's like to experience 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:51.639 their leadership and to be on the other side of 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:54.800 the incredible songs and the sermons and so I love them. 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.359 I'm thankful for all of the pastors that serve here 0:02:57.560 --> 0:02:59.840 at Elevation. Can we just thank God for them? From 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:05.240 every pastor at every location to the man, the myth, 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.280 the legion chalks, I celebrate you. I'm thankful for who 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:10.880 you are, and I'm just don't pretend like I'm at 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:13.520 home because I am. Is that cool? I act like 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:15.440 I'm at social Dallas, And I want to jump straight 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:18.000 into the Word of God today. I want you to 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:21.919 go with me to the Book of Acts, Acts, chapter twenty, 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:25.160 and I want to look at verses seven through twelve, 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:28.200 Acts Chapter twenty. We started verse number seven and we'll 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:30.960 land of verse number twelve. I have to get excused 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:34.240 absences from my wife to be at any other church, 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.680 and so I'm glad that she gave me this excuse absence. 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.280 But I am families. So can I show you my family. 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:41.440 It's been a while. This is the Medu crew. Let 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:43.200 me show you my family. I'll got that picture of 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:49.600 my family. They are Look at that, y'all. If you 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:51.880 wonder why I have this glow emanating from my face, 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.640 it's not just because I use exfoliating skin products. It's 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.080 because I am a blessed man. That is the Madou crew, 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:00.000 and those are our three little humans. And I'm excited 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.200 to preach. Let's let's let's go to work. Go to Acts, 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.240 chapter twenty, and we're gonna start at verse number seven, 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:09.760 and we'll land at verse number twelve. When you're ready 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.600 to read it, say yeah, yeah. If you need a 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:15.560 little time to find the book of Acts, say hold up, 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:18.880 I heard that. Hold up. I'm wait for you. I'ma 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:23.839 wait for your Acts chapter twenty, and we'll start at 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:29.880 verse number seven, and it says, on the first day 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:34.240 of the week, we came together to break bread. Paul 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:37.279 spoke to the people, and because he intended to leave 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:43.280 the next day, kept on talking until midnight. How many 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:46.840 you would stay here if I just kept preaching till midnight? 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:51.880 Anybody'll y'all lieing? Don't lie? Some of y'all gonna leave 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:55.880 to catch the brunch, And says there were many lamps 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:59.120 in the upstairs room where they were meeting, and seated 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:03.159 in a window was a young man named Udicus, who 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:07.479 was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:11.400 and on, And when he was sound asleep, he fell 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:13.440 to the ground from the third story and was picked 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:17.880 up dead. And Paul went down, threw himself on the 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:22.360 young man and put his arms around him. Don't be alarmed, 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:28.599 he said, he's alive. Then he went upstairs again and 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:33.839 broke bread and ate. You know, you gangster, when you 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:37.599 do a resurrection, don't even wash your hands, and go 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:42.960 right upstairs and break bread. And he he said, the 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:46.000 people took the young after talking till daylight, he left, 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.599 and the people took the young man home alive and 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:53.279 were greatly comforted. Can you say a man, thank you 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:59.320 so much? What a peculiar passage of scripture. I've been 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:02.840 obsessed with this scripture for a long time, especially about 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:08.279 this young dude name Uticus, because he made the Bible, y'all, 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:13.320 not for something he said, but for what he did. 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:19.640 Homeboy made the Bible from falling asleep in church, falling 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:24.760 out of a window, and dying. He didn't even say anything. 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.919 But if Uticus could come back today, I think he 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:31.159 would tell you what my title is today. He would 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:36.200 say to you, who I didn't know I fell asleep. 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:43.760 I didn't know I fell asleep. Would you help me 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:45.960 preach and look at your neighbor whichever one you like 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:50.520 the best across every location. Just say neighbor, O neighbor. 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:56.240 Sometimes you don't know when you're asleep. Come on, find 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.120 another neighbor. In case that neighborhood stuck up, come on, 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:02.159 find another neighbor. Come on, say other neighbor. You my 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:07.320 second option. But don't sleep on this message. Give God 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:13.320 some praise. If you got expectation for him to speak today, Father, 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:18.800 have your way, speak to our hearts today in Jesus' name. 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:25.720 And man, I didn't know. I fell asleep when I 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:28.640 read this text. That immediately took me back to a 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:33.600 moment in church that I will never forget. It's happened 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.160 a few years ago. Actually, during the first year of 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:38.720 our marriage. Some of you would know that. Before we 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:43.440 planted our church social Dallas, I traveled for sixteen years 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:47.520 as an evangelist, had an itinerant ministry, preaching at churches 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.720 all across the nation and preaching from Genesis all the 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.760 way to the maps in the back. And I remember 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.400 we had just gotten we just gotten married, and it 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:58.840 was a crazy week of traveling. We're new the wads, 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:00.760 and I was actually trying to show my new it's 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.800 real out here in these ministry streets. It's not vacation. 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:06.480 I'm living out of the suitcase and going from city 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:08.120 to city. And it was a crazy week. We're in 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:11.120 a different city every single night, and then Saturday night 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:14.720 we get into Middlelothian, Virginia. I'll never forget it. And 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:16.360 the pastor picked us up and he said, hey, I 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:18.400 just want to let you know that tomorrow we have 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:22.080 three Sunday morning services since the first one starts at 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:25.320 eight a m. So I looked at my bride, my 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:27.840 new bride, and I said, babe, it's been a crazy week. 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:29.960 I said, you do not have to go to all 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.320 three of these services. I said, why don't you just 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:34.800 pick one or come to the last one. You don't 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.120 have to come to all three. Now, keep in mind, 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.199 this is the first year of our marriage. Okay, now 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.560 we got eleven years in. We got double digits on 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:43.440 the board. If I asked her today, she'd be like, 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:47.160 I wasn't planning on coming to all three. I'll come to 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.600 the last one and catch you at lunch. But when 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:52.319 you're a newly way that's different. So she's like, Babe, no, 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:57.120 I'll come to all three. We can't be disconnected so 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:59.559 all right, it's gonna be early morning, and so we 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:01.480 get to the church. I'll never forget it. It's the 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:03.600 first service of the day and I'm preaching and I'm 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:07.240 getting ready to land the sermon, land the plane. My wife, 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:10.440 who is on the front row. I look at my 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:15.520 peripheral and I see her arms are closed. So my 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:17.760 first thought is my first thought is see I picked 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:21.280 the right one. She is praying for her man right now. 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.000 She knows that this is the most important part in 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:26.920 the sermon, that I'm about to land the plane, and 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:30.960 she is preparing the atmosphere with the gift of Inner session. 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.160 She is praying for me. Then all of a sudden, 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:36.320 I noticed her eyes were all the way in the 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:38.000 back of her head and her mouth was open. Then 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:41.520 she started rocking like this and going back and forth, 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:43.680 and I said, wait, man, we're Pentecosta, but we ain't 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:48.480 that Pentecosta. Why is she rocking back and forth? And 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:51.520 before you know it, she is sound asleep on the 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.640 front row of the church. And I'm panicking because I 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.120 notice it. And then I noticed other people noticing her, 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:59.120 and then I just panicked. I just called the worship 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:00.760 team back and I said come back, come back out, 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:07.240 and everybody stand. Everybody's everybody stand to your feet. She 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:11.520 woke up and stood and I prayed the praying ooh. 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.640 And I went back to the green room. I wasn't 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:18.440 living at you. I said, babe, what is wrong with you? 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:20.880 I told you you didn't have to come. Did you notice? 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.680 Everybody notice? And you fall asleep? And she said, in 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:27.719 that sweet voice, Babe, I'm sorry. I couldn't help it, 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:33.439 and I didn't know I was falling asleep. But I 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:34.960 look back, I shouldn't have got mad, because come on, 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:36.520 let's be honest. This happened to the best of us, 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:38.880 hasn't it. Oh, come on, I don't care how saved, 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:41.360 how spiritual you are. You could have floated in here, 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:45.320 had communion for breakfast. I promise you you have had 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:48.560 you a sleepy sunday. Come you're honest across every location 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:53.000 to admit you've had a Sunday where you you were dozing. 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:55.360 You're like, look, I'm here. At least I made it. 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:58.920 That's the wind today. I'm not impressed with people that 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:00.960 tell me they've never fallen to sleep in church. If 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:03.720 you've never fallen asleep in church, all you telling me 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:07.640 is you don't come to church consistently. That's all you're 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:09.560 letting me know. Of course you can stay awake, you 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:12.800 just come on Eastern Christmas. Those of us who fall 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.760 asleep are faithful. We keep showing up even when we 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:20.200 worked late last night. So uh, it's not a big deal. 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:23.680 In fact, you want to sleep today, it's cool because 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:25.760 it's happened to the best of us. And I didn't 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:28.200 come all the way from Dallas to Charlotte to tell 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.439 you that if you fall asleep in church you're gonna die. 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:36.320 It's not my assignment today, Nor do I think that's 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:39.800 the reason that this story is in the Bible. But 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:43.600 the question I have been asking myself is why is 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.080 this story in the Bible? Come on, of all the 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.840 things that doctor Luke could have put pen to paper 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:51.400 to write about, why do we need to know about 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:55.000 this young dude named Uticus that fell asleep in church, 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.200 Of all the things to put in the Book of Backs, 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:00.480 Why do we need to know about this this young 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:04.800 dude named Eudicus fallen asleep in church, Of all the 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:06.520 things he could have written about in the Book of Acts. 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:08.720 You understand that the Book of Acts is giving us 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:12.480 the first thirty years of the history of the early Church. 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:15.240 It's not telling us everything that happened. It's just telling 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.439 us snapshots that happened, just a few of the events 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:20.800 that happen. I love the Book of Acts. Read it 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:22.720 when you get to the crib, because the Book of 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:26.360 Acts lets me know that God will always keep his promise. 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.240 Because you understand that He gave those in the upper 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:32.040 room a promise. He said, and the Holy Spirit will 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.160 come upon you, and you'll receive power to be my 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:39.520 witnesses to Jerusalem, Judaeus, Samaria, and to the ends of 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:42.400 the earth. Think about that, that something that started with 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:45.080 a small group of one twenty in an upper room 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:48.880 began to spread around the world, and the gospel is 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:52.000 still being preached today. I'm gonna pause right here and 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:55.640 tell somebody, don't despise small beginnings. Come you know, you 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:58.960 can start small, but if the Holy Spirit starts blowing 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:02.040 on the thing that's you know, it has the power 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:07.520 to go around the world. Don't despise small beginnings because 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:11.240 when God starts something small, the Holy Spirit gets on it, 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:13.280 it can get big. Look at what you sitting in 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:16.839 here today at Elevation Church, This didn't start with all 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:20.160 these campuses and packing out arenas. How many are thankful 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:23.320 that some families and pastor Stephen and Holly were faithful 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:26.000 to step out and all of a sudden because the 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:30.520 Holy Spirit blew on something to change the game. But 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:33.160 I'm trying to figure out why we gotta know about 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:36.320 Paul and the Unicus. This don't make sense to me. 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:39.560 I get knowing about Paul and Antonius. Come on, you know, 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:42.240 Paul is like some of y'all. He went from ratchet 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:46.160 to righteous. He had a testimony. He actually persecuted the 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:49.120 church before he started building the church. God knocked him 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:52.040 off his high horse and a light blinded him. Only 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:54.280 God could use a light to blind you, and a 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:57.600 light blinded him. And he needed Antonius because when God 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.000 is taking you from who you were to who you're 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.319 going to be, you need an anonaius to lay their 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:04.520 hands on you and show you the way. I get 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:08.240 Paul and Antonius. I get Paul and Barnabas, because come on, 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:10.360 God didn't just save you for you to come to 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:12.559 church and sit on your blessed assurance and do nothing. 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:16.200 Come on, you gotta get plugged in. You have a 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:19.360 purpose He created you on purpose, for a purpose. So 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:23.040 I get Paul and Barnabas. You need Barnabas. Barnabas is 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:25.440 the one that got connected to Paul on his first mission. 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.640 Every journey, I get Paul and Silas because I mean, 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:30.320 you know, when you're in a dark place, you need 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:33.440 somebody that will praise God with you. I need somebody 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:35.520 that when I say high Lay, they say Lujah. When 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.080 I say praise, they say Lord. I get Paul inside 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:41.400 of the But Paul and Unicus, why do I need 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:45.040 to know Debby fell asleep in church? Surely the message 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:47.880 is don't sleep in church. Surely that can't be the message. 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:55.120 Surely the message isn't preach short. I vehementically come against that. 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:56.840 That can't be the message of this text. I had 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.200 a Bible college professor. He said, you should preach fifteen 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:01.600 minutes or less fifty minute. He said, yes, the mind 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.720 cannot retain what the seat cannot endure. Preach fifteen minutes 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.640 or less. I'm thinking, were you born, you should preach 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:11.080 fifteen minutes or less. Surely the message is not preach short, 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:13.920 and surely the message can be that the apostle Paul 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:17.720 was a boring communicator, because if he was a boring communicator, 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:20.240 I believe the text would have said everybody fell asleep, 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.880 but everybody didn't fall asleep. Eudicus is the only one 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.440 that started dozing off in the room. That means, oh, 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:28.160 I don't know how many people in the room, but 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:30.480 Eudicus was the only one that was sleeping. That means 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:34.280 everybody else in the room must have been leaning in. Going, Paul, 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:37.480 if you got more to say, we got more to receive. 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:40.320 If you're gonna pour out, we're ready to receive it. 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:42.800 I want to pause right here and thank God that, 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.920 first of all, Paul had the depth of content to 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.760 keep preaching past midnight. But I want to shout out 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:50.960 to other people in the room that have the depth 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:56.440 of capacity to receive what Paul was pouring out. Oh see, 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.920 sometimes we think that God has doesn't have enough content 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:02.720 to pour out to us. But sometimes it has nothing 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:04.640 to do with what God wants to pour out, but 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:08.240 everything to do with your capacity to receive what God 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:10.280 wants to pour out. Is there anybody in here that 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.440 knows that God has so much more that he wants 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:15.360 to pour out, but some of us keep coming to 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:19.400 him with a little saucer. Thank God, I'm ready to receive. 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:21.240 So I want to shout out the other people in 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:25.000 the room that had the depth of capacity to receive 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:27.400 what Paul had. I want to shout out the other 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:29.640 people in the room that said, Paul, if you got 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:33.120 something to say, I am ready with anticipation and I'm 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:35.560 ready to hear it. Is there anybody in here that 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:39.080 says I came to receive something from God? I actually 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:45.440 have expectation. Sometimes we think the problem is with the seed, 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:48.080 and it has nothing to do with the seed, but 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:51.920 everything to do with the soil that receives it. That's 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.520 why when Jesus told the parable of the Sower, the 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:57.480 thing that was constant was the seed, but the only 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:00.520 thing that changed was the soil. Because often times the 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:03.080 problem is not with the person that has the microphone, 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:07.639 it's with the people that have the capacity to receive it. 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:10.119 So sometimes I'll preach a message and it'll be terrible, 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:12.320 and somebody'd be like, oh, that's the best message you 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:15.879 ever preached, and I'd be like, nah, fam, that's the 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:19.199 best time you ever listened. I know that wasn't the 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:22.200 best one. But sometimes when you actually have the capacity 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:25.520 to receive it, it'll hit the ground better. And I 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:28.800 know this room had capacity to received. In fact, they 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:33.240 had something that I call proof of expectation. They had 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:36.440 proof that they were expecting God to speak to them 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:39.440 through Paul. Proof of expectation. I don't ask church people 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:42.199 anymore do you have expectation? Because everybody's like, yeah, I 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:45.959 got expectation. I asked them, show me the proof of 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:50.080 your expectation. Prove to me that you're actually expecting God 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:52.399 to do something in your life. Is there anybody in 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:56.600 here that actually has proof of your expectation? Somebody will say, 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:59.440 I got expectation. I'm believing God for a house. Really? 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:03.120 Are you actually sewing right now? Are you giving Nah? 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:07.560 I'm just expecting a house. Really. Okay, have you downloaded Zillow? Nah? 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:11.119 Not yet, But I'm just expecting a house. Show me, yo, 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:14.880 you got to have proof of your expectation. And I'm 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:17.159 telling the people in this room they had proof of 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:19.840 expectation that God was going to do something. Can you 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:22.640 prove it in the text? I will verse number eight 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:24.680 of Acts, chapter twenty. I want you to see something. 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:26.760 If you read too fast or miss it, it says 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:30.879 there were many lamps in the upstairs room where they 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:36.440 were meeting. There were how many lamps? How many many? 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:40.119 There were so many lamps in that upstairs room. That 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:44.000 lets me know the people in the room had expectation 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.320 to receive, because it's how we're down. I don't think 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:51.200 Paul planned to preach law. We never do. I think 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:53.120 you jarted off and it kept going and kept going 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:55.440 and kept going all throughout the middle of the night. 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:58.280 But guess what, the people in the room already knew 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:01.199 that this meeting might go long, and Paul's gonna pour 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:03.240 out to us and we might not ever see him again. 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:06.240 So before they ever got in the room, they set 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:10.160 the atmosphere of that room and put many lamps in there. 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:12.439 I'm talking to some of y'all, you gotta start setting 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:16.120 the atmosphere with some expectation. I'm talking to some of y'all. 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:18.680 You gotta start praising God on your way to church. 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.080 Don't wait till you get in the building. You want 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:24.080 to start praising all the way on your way to church. 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:29.040 The lamps were proof of their expectation. They had many lamps. 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:30.840 You know how long it took them to set up 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:34.680 all those lamps. Say, y'all know Paul might get long 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:37.199 winded tonight, Let's just set them all up. Setting up 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.840 all these lamps as proof that they had expectation for 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:43.560 something to happen. Then not only that, wait a minute, 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:48.880 who you have to also have oil in those lamps. 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:51.480 It's not enough just to have the lamps. You better 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:54.400 have some oil. You remember when Jesus told the parable 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:58.440 about the five foolish bridesmaids and the five wise one, 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:02.200 And remember all of them pulled a you kissing, fell asleep, 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:05.400 And when the bridegroom came. The only thing that separated 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:07.600 the wise one from the foolish ones were the ones 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:10.920 that have enough oil that were in their lamps. Is 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:12.480 there anybody in here and say, I don't just have 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:15.560 the lamps. I got some oil, I got some anointing. 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:23.960 I am expecting God. There's something. Those lamps stood as 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:28.159 proof that they had expectation for God to speak to 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:31.919 them in that upper room. Not only does those lamps 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:35.280 stand as proof of their expectation, it also shows the 0:20:35.320 --> 0:20:39.040 power of illumination. Anytime you see a lamp in the Bible, 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:41.520 it is a picture of the word of a God. 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:44.640 How many have realized that life is above your pay 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:50.600 grade and you need a word from God. You need 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:53.320 his word for direction. This is what he says. Your 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:57.280 word is a lamp unto my feet. It's a light 0:20:57.480 --> 0:20:59.920 unto my path. This is the power of the word 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:04.520 of God. I need his word for direction. Oh, it's 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:08.200 a lamp unto my feet, meaning that oftentimes his word 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:11.520 will just tell you the next step. Often, when God 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:13.359 speaks to you, he's not going to give you a 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:16.640 twenty year plan. I know that messes up you planners. 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:19.760 He would not giving you a twenty year plan, but 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:21.480 he will tell you this is what you do next. 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:24.879 This is what you do next. Take this step. And 0:21:24.920 --> 0:21:26.520 some of you haven't taken that step. You're like, God, 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:28.480 I need a new word. He's like, dude, the last 0:21:28.480 --> 0:21:34.160 one I told you. The lamps proved that his word 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:37.919 is illumination in that room, and so all of them 0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:41.399 had tiptoe anticipation that God was going to speak to 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:43.520 the great Apostle Paul, and I have to be honest 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:45.000 with you and tell you something. I don't usually like 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:47.960 to brag about places that I go, but I've been 0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:51.920 to this upper room. I've been to this room I've 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:54.800 been to this room. I've seen this upper room where 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:57.840 they gat that I was there. I wasn't there, y'all, 0:21:58.080 --> 0:22:02.640 not in reality, in my exegetically imagination. But I went 0:22:02.720 --> 0:22:07.320 to Troas and I worked all day. I worked long 0:22:08.119 --> 0:22:10.880 and hard all day, and I was filled with excitement 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:12.800 because everybody was talking about how Paul was going to 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:16.119 show up at this undisclosed location, and they said he 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:17.960 was going to be there, the great Apostle Paul. So 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:20.320 after working all day, I went straight from work to 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:23.119 this upper room. I remember it, y'all. I remember walking 0:22:23.240 --> 0:22:26.640 up the flight of stairs three stories. I remember walking in. 0:22:26.680 --> 0:22:29.560 The room was packed with people. I remember the smell 0:22:30.040 --> 0:22:32.639 in that room because not everybody took a bass, I 0:22:32.640 --> 0:22:35.639 could tell, and the room was so packed, but nobody 0:22:35.720 --> 0:22:38.000 cared about the smell because they were just actually excited 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:40.840 to hear Paul preach. I was there in the room 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:44.040 as we began to take the bread, and we began 0:22:44.160 --> 0:22:47.880 to have communion, and we remembered the sacrifice of what 0:22:48.000 --> 0:22:51.879 Jesus did. I remembered the rooms, and I remember that 0:22:52.000 --> 0:22:57.040 moment when Paul walked in, who the whole room got quiet. 0:22:57.080 --> 0:22:58.879 I don't know if you've ever met your heroes. But 0:22:58.960 --> 0:23:03.080 I remember seeing Paul walk in the room. I remember 0:23:03.160 --> 0:23:06.679 seeing the scars that were showing through his tunic, because 0:23:06.720 --> 0:23:09.720 in his body he bore the scars of what he 0:23:09.800 --> 0:23:13.880 had suffered from the Gospel. And there I was listening 0:23:13.920 --> 0:23:16.719 to the Apostle Paul preach, and I was trying to 0:23:16.760 --> 0:23:19.119 take it all in. It was like drinking from a 0:23:19.240 --> 0:23:22.840 fire hydrant. He just had death of wisdom and revelation. 0:23:23.320 --> 0:23:25.800 And there I am listening to the Apostle Paul, and 0:23:25.880 --> 0:23:29.320 I was so leaned in. Nobody ever spoke like him. 0:23:29.680 --> 0:23:33.520 And I was with him for the first forty five minutes. 0:23:35.600 --> 0:23:39.560 I was with him for the first hour. But after 0:23:39.640 --> 0:23:46.320 an hour and fifteen minutes, he said, bruh, you gotta 0:23:46.400 --> 0:23:50.000 land this plan. But he kept on preaching, kept on preaching. 0:23:50.000 --> 0:23:51.600 Then my knees got tired, so I said, I'm as 0:23:51.640 --> 0:23:53.080 well sit down, and looks like this is gonna be 0:23:53.119 --> 0:23:56.080 a long message. And I sat down. And I was 0:23:56.160 --> 0:23:59.280 good for the first hour and fifteen minutes. But then 0:23:59.320 --> 0:24:03.520 in an hour and thirty minutes, he's still preaching, y'all. 0:24:03.520 --> 0:24:05.320 In the hour thirty I had to go to the bathroom. 0:24:05.400 --> 0:24:07.080 I had too much of the juice. So I got 0:24:07.160 --> 0:24:09.520 up and I left and I went to the bathroom. 0:24:09.760 --> 0:24:12.320 And when I came back from the bathroom, somebody stole 0:24:12.400 --> 0:24:15.600 my seat. I said, ain't that messed up? And Paul 0:24:16.000 --> 0:24:18.480 is still preaching, so watch just stayed in the back 0:24:18.600 --> 0:24:23.000 in two hours in. Now he's taken questions. I'm like, Paul, 0:24:23.200 --> 0:24:26.199 come on, bro, And he keeps going and going. And 0:24:26.240 --> 0:24:28.280 then it was hot because all know the lamps for 0:24:28.400 --> 0:24:30.879 him the room, and I started again light headed, and 0:24:31.040 --> 0:24:34.920 my stomach was full. And he he's two hours and 0:24:35.080 --> 0:24:37.879 thirty eight minutes in, and so finally I was getting 0:24:37.920 --> 0:24:40.760 hot flatchers I went by a window. I went by 0:24:40.800 --> 0:24:43.280 the window to just get a little air from my tunic, 0:24:43.480 --> 0:24:46.320 and I started airing out my tunic just a little bit. 0:24:46.680 --> 0:24:50.560 And then when he's three hours in, I had to 0:24:50.760 --> 0:24:54.960 just sit in the window. And then he got going. 0:24:56.200 --> 0:25:00.960 And now he's three and a half hours in, and 0:25:01.080 --> 0:25:06.400 the lamps in the room kept flickering, and I saw 0:25:06.520 --> 0:25:13.439 it going fow off something pleasp. Now I was trying 0:25:14.400 --> 0:25:19.680 hopping out. I was playing that. I just okay, oh, 0:25:19.720 --> 0:25:21.399 walk in And then I started looking out the window. 0:25:21.440 --> 0:25:23.600 I said, Lord, what's going on out here because this 0:25:23.720 --> 0:25:28.159 is gonna be going on for a long time, finally 0:25:29.280 --> 0:25:37.720 laying her head on the window. L shute h n. 0:25:44.640 --> 0:25:51.280 Do you see how it happens? Do you see nobody 0:25:51.359 --> 0:25:58.719 intends to fall asleep, Nobody plans on going to sleep. 0:25:59.840 --> 0:26:02.399 I went through all that to show you, let's not 0:26:02.520 --> 0:26:05.440 be so quick to throw a stone in Uticus when 0:26:05.480 --> 0:26:08.919 it's happened to the best of us. For my issue 0:26:08.920 --> 0:26:15.959 with Uticus, it's not really his sleeping. My issue is 0:26:16.000 --> 0:26:24.520 with where he chose to sit. Of old places that 0:26:24.560 --> 0:26:28.800 were in that upstairs room. What in the workadure would 0:26:28.880 --> 0:26:33.760 you sit and open went on the ledge of an 0:26:33.760 --> 0:26:37.159 open with My issue is not with his sleep. My 0:26:37.359 --> 0:26:41.920 issue is with his seat. I'm gonna say, Ludacris, because 0:26:41.920 --> 0:26:50.280 it is ludicrous. Why are you sitting on the ledge 0:26:51.000 --> 0:26:56.680 of an open window. That's a dangerous place to set Unicus, 0:26:57.040 --> 0:27:00.320 I think you should have chose another seat of all 0:27:00.400 --> 0:27:03.600 the seats, because when you sit in an open window 0:27:03.960 --> 0:27:07.560 when you're in church, but you're still got open windows 0:27:07.720 --> 0:27:10.600 when you're in church, and yes, you got your attendants, 0:27:10.760 --> 0:27:14.280 but God doesn't have your attention. When you're in church, 0:27:14.520 --> 0:27:17.400 but you still got open windows. It's only a matter 0:27:17.440 --> 0:27:21.280 of time before you go from a window to a fall, 0:27:21.960 --> 0:27:25.080 because you gotta be careful where you sit in the 0:27:25.119 --> 0:27:27.520 House of God. You gotta be careful when you have 0:27:27.720 --> 0:27:31.720 open windows. My issue with Uticus is why would you 0:27:31.800 --> 0:27:36.840 sit in such a dangerous place? And I'm wondering there's 0:27:36.880 --> 0:27:40.200 anybody in here who just like Eudicus And oh, you're 0:27:40.240 --> 0:27:43.000 in church. Oh I understand. Judicus is not in the club. 0:27:44.240 --> 0:27:49.399 Judicus came to a campus. He was there, but he 0:27:49.480 --> 0:27:54.640 picked a dangerous place to sit. Judicus had some open 0:27:54.840 --> 0:27:57.800 windows in his life even though he was in the 0:27:57.920 --> 0:28:01.919 house of God. Here's your intention will get you in 0:28:02.000 --> 0:28:05.240 the room, but it's your attention that will keep you 0:28:05.840 --> 0:28:09.040 and the row. It is not enough just to come 0:28:09.200 --> 0:28:13.000 to church. You gotta be careful words you sit. And 0:28:13.240 --> 0:28:17.360 some of you in here today have some open windows. 0:28:17.560 --> 0:28:20.040 And God just told me to ask you, is that 0:28:20.119 --> 0:28:24.679 the best place for you to sin? Is that the 0:28:24.720 --> 0:28:27.320 best place? You know? You're sitting in an open window 0:28:27.800 --> 0:28:29.760 when you're trying to see how close you can get 0:28:29.800 --> 0:28:35.120 to the edge of sin without a being sin. When 0:28:35.119 --> 0:28:40.200 you're asking questions like well, what is lying really? I mean, 0:28:40.360 --> 0:28:44.480 I mean, what's cheating really? It's an open window because 0:28:44.480 --> 0:28:46.760 you're trying to see how close you can get to 0:28:46.840 --> 0:28:49.360 the last. And God told me to tell somebody in 0:28:49.400 --> 0:28:52.400 this place today it is a horrible thing to fight 0:28:52.520 --> 0:28:55.160 sleep in a window sea. You need to get off 0:28:55.200 --> 0:28:58.080 of the window sea, get away from the edge. You 0:28:58.120 --> 0:29:00.880 should go to a wall and end up on something 0:29:00.920 --> 0:29:06.760 that's solid. Don't fight sleep in a window seat. That's 0:29:06.800 --> 0:29:11.800 a horrible place to try to fight the war of 0:29:12.040 --> 0:29:16.760 falling asleep. The issue wasn't his sleep, it was where 0:29:16.800 --> 0:29:20.280 he was sitting. Can we be honest? Have you ever 0:29:20.320 --> 0:29:23.560 been fighting sleep? I'm talking about in the natural? You 0:29:23.600 --> 0:29:25.760 ever been fighting it? You ever see how stupid you 0:29:25.760 --> 0:29:33.520 look fighting sleep? Wow? Hitting yourself doing whatever you can't 0:29:33.560 --> 0:29:35.320 I'm the worst. I'm telling you. My wife is scared 0:29:35.320 --> 0:29:38.040 to drive with me. I'm telling for me. All long 0:29:38.160 --> 0:29:41.040 drives and the engine just drone in and if there's 0:29:41.080 --> 0:29:43.640 no scenery, I am dangerous behind the wheel if it 0:29:43.680 --> 0:29:45.480 is more than a two hour drive, because I'll just 0:29:45.760 --> 0:29:47.280 who I see why he went by the window, Because 0:29:47.280 --> 0:29:49.120 that's why I do. I open up the windows when 0:29:49.160 --> 0:29:50.480 I'm about to fall asleep, and I'll stick my head 0:29:50.480 --> 0:29:55.440 out the window, just fighting so you have been fighting. 0:29:55.520 --> 0:29:58.240 See I'm telling I am dangerous on a highway, just 0:29:58.240 --> 0:30:00.760 doing whatever I can to stay away. I like hip hop, 0:30:00.760 --> 0:30:02.320 but when I'm telling you, when i'm driving, I'll listen 0:30:02.320 --> 0:30:04.640 to whatever I gotta listen to. Just stay awake. If 0:30:04.640 --> 0:30:05.920 you ever seen me on the highway with my head 0:30:05.920 --> 0:30:10.920 out the window talking about said you up in the like, 0:30:11.040 --> 0:30:15.120 was that past the robber? Yeah, shout us. Stay awake. 0:30:16.440 --> 0:30:20.560 It's a horrible thing to fight sleep in a window seat. 0:30:21.520 --> 0:30:23.360 And all of us disciples have been there, haven't we. 0:30:24.440 --> 0:30:28.160 Do you remember when the disciples were with Jesus, Peter, James, 0:30:28.160 --> 0:30:30.600 and John in the garden of Guesseimone and he told 0:30:30.680 --> 0:30:34.720 him watch and pray, stay here, just pray with me. 0:30:35.280 --> 0:30:38.680 And what did they start doing? They pulled the unicuts 0:30:40.200 --> 0:30:43.320 fall asleep. But do you remember what Jesus said to him. 0:30:44.280 --> 0:30:46.040 She went up to him, called him out first, y'all 0:30:46.040 --> 0:30:47.960 sleeping you know they did like we do. No, no, man, 0:30:48.000 --> 0:30:54.120 we just praying for you. Yeah sure, he said, uh, 0:30:54.400 --> 0:30:58.480 watch and pray. He says, be careful that you don't 0:30:58.520 --> 0:31:04.320 fall into ten. It's an awkward thing to say for 0:31:04.400 --> 0:31:07.520 somebody that's sleeping. Y'all, got real spiritual with it, like, 0:31:07.560 --> 0:31:13.880 ooh yeah, what what does temptation have to do with sleeping? Say, boys, 0:31:13.920 --> 0:31:15.560 you just said be careful that you do not fall 0:31:15.640 --> 0:31:20.520 into a temperipedic. What does temptation have to do with sleeping? 0:31:22.960 --> 0:31:27.000 He says. More, he says, the spirit is willing, but 0:31:27.080 --> 0:31:31.120 the flesh is weak. He's given us a metaphor, the 0:31:31.200 --> 0:31:33.840 Great Teacher that in the same way in the natural, 0:31:35.360 --> 0:31:39.480 when you're fighting to stay awake, that is the war 0:31:40.280 --> 0:31:45.480 between your flesh and your spirit. He's trying to let 0:31:45.480 --> 0:31:47.760 you know that we live in a culture that is 0:31:47.800 --> 0:31:52.080 always trying to put you to sleep, and you got 0:31:52.120 --> 0:31:56.640 to do whatever you can to fight to stay Oh wake, 0:31:57.240 --> 0:32:00.200 you cannot go to sleep. I don't know who this 0:32:00.280 --> 0:32:02.440 is for, but this is your wake up call today 0:32:02.680 --> 0:32:05.720 because the enemy is trying to get you to fight 0:32:06.080 --> 0:32:11.160 to sleep it. That's what he's given us, the metaphor 0:32:11.920 --> 0:32:16.000 that is hard to stay awake. And I came to 0:32:16.040 --> 0:32:20.200 tell you that the disciples with the best intentions often 0:32:20.360 --> 0:32:27.520 fall the sleep. The disciples with the best hearts often 0:32:27.720 --> 0:32:32.640 fall asleep. Don't forget what happened in that passage when 0:32:32.680 --> 0:32:35.840 the disciples were sleeping. He says that Jesus was sorrowful 0:32:35.840 --> 0:32:40.160 to death, but another translation says even the disciples were sorrowful. 0:32:41.080 --> 0:32:47.200 Sometimes sorrow makes you sleepy because you've been through so 0:32:47.360 --> 0:32:52.360 much and you've been fighting to stay awake. But the 0:32:52.400 --> 0:32:58.640 bain starts lulling you to sleep, and God says, you 0:32:58.760 --> 0:33:06.160 gotta keep on and don't let the culture and the 0:33:06.160 --> 0:33:10.760 things around you put you to sleep. I love the 0:33:10.800 --> 0:33:15.440 Bible because it flows so well together. The Bible is 0:33:15.520 --> 0:33:19.880 replete with examples and scriptures about our need to stay vigilant, 0:33:20.360 --> 0:33:25.640 to stay awake. For Thessalonians five, verses five through six says, 0:33:25.680 --> 0:33:27.400 you are all children of the light and children of 0:33:27.400 --> 0:33:29.680 the day. We do not belong to the night or 0:33:29.680 --> 0:33:32.240 to the darkness. So then let us not be like 0:33:32.280 --> 0:33:35.880 the others who are asleep, but let us be awakened. 0:33:35.920 --> 0:33:39.720 Sober Paul says in Romans thirteen, verse eleven and twelve. 0:33:39.800 --> 0:33:43.600 And do this understanding the present time. The hour has 0:33:43.640 --> 0:33:46.640 already come for you to wake up from your slumber, 0:33:46.840 --> 0:33:50.240 because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believe. 0:33:50.440 --> 0:33:53.160 The night is nearly over, the day is almost here. 0:33:53.280 --> 0:33:55.720 So let us put aside the deeds of the darkness 0:33:55.760 --> 0:33:59.360 and put on the armor of light. One Peter five 0:33:59.400 --> 0:34:04.280 eight says be alert and a sober mind. Your enemy. 0:34:04.360 --> 0:34:07.400 The devil prowls around like a roaring line, looking for 0:34:07.520 --> 0:34:11.560 someone to devour. I'm trying to show you the Bible 0:34:11.600 --> 0:34:16.200 has always been telling us as believers, stay awake because 0:34:16.200 --> 0:34:21.200 it's so easy. Oh a sleep. I know some of 0:34:21.239 --> 0:34:24.520 y'all are super spiritual. You're like, I would never get sleepyre. 0:34:25.560 --> 0:34:28.920 You know how long I've been coming to elevation. I 0:34:29.000 --> 0:34:31.800 have scriptures to memorize. I'm a child at the most 0:34:31.880 --> 0:34:40.000 high God. I'm telling you it's easier to fall asleep 0:34:40.080 --> 0:34:44.719 than you realize. I would never Okay, you remember Luke 0:34:44.760 --> 0:34:48.080 chapter nine when the disciples, three of them, saying three 0:34:48.120 --> 0:34:51.480 that fell asleep, go up to the mount of Transfiguration 0:34:51.560 --> 0:34:54.640 with Jesus and something powerful happens. As Jesus starts praying, 0:34:54.680 --> 0:34:58.239 he starts glowing in the dark. Can you imagine being 0:34:58.280 --> 0:35:01.000 with Jesus on a mountaintop and his clothes get brighter 0:35:01.040 --> 0:35:03.680 than anybody could bleach it. Some of the crazier happens. 0:35:03.760 --> 0:35:08.439 Moses and Elijah show up on the mountain, y'all. I'm 0:35:08.480 --> 0:35:12.000 thinking if I'm on a mountaintop with Jesus and Moses 0:35:12.040 --> 0:35:16.560 and Elijah show up and he is glowing in the dark. Oh, 0:35:16.640 --> 0:35:20.480 I am wide awake. I am not missing this at all. 0:35:20.560 --> 0:35:23.319 Matter of fact, I'm gonna have my phone recorded the 0:35:23.400 --> 0:35:25.319 whole thing, saying, who wait till they see this when 0:35:25.360 --> 0:35:27.279 I get off this mountain. They ain't gonna believe this. 0:35:29.200 --> 0:35:32.120 But guess what happened to the disciples who are on 0:35:32.200 --> 0:35:35.000 a mountain would glow in the dark. Jesus and Moses 0:35:35.040 --> 0:35:38.520 and Elijah, two people who were dead. Look at what 0:35:38.560 --> 0:35:40.560 happens in Luke chapter nine, verse thirty two. It's his 0:35:40.640 --> 0:35:43.879 peters and his companions were very sleepy, but when they 0:35:43.880 --> 0:35:47.960 became fully awake, they saw his glory and the two 0:35:48.000 --> 0:35:52.240 men standing with him. They fell asleep on a mountain 0:35:52.360 --> 0:35:55.759 top with two people who came back from the dead. 0:35:55.840 --> 0:35:59.160 You don't sit up there and tell me, and you 0:35:59.200 --> 0:36:03.759 don't just sleep, yeah that you don't get weary. Even 0:36:03.760 --> 0:36:07.320 the disciples with the best intentions, the best the hearts 0:36:08.840 --> 0:36:12.880 fall I sleep. I guess the question that I'm asking 0:36:14.040 --> 0:36:18.439 you today is that if I don't know when I'm 0:36:18.480 --> 0:36:26.440 falling asleep in the natural, you realize you don't know 0:36:26.520 --> 0:36:30.480 when you're sleeping. If I don't know when I'm falling 0:36:30.520 --> 0:36:37.759 asleep in the natural until somebody wakes me up, could 0:36:37.800 --> 0:36:42.200 it be possible you don't know when you're falling asleep spiritually. 0:36:45.320 --> 0:36:50.520 You don't even know. You could be asleep spiritually for 0:36:50.800 --> 0:36:56.800 years and it's not until somebody says, wake up you 0:36:56.920 --> 0:37:01.480 realize I've been sleeping. Does somebody say wake up? To 0:37:01.560 --> 0:37:04.080 realize I've just been going through the motions and checking 0:37:04.080 --> 0:37:06.279 the box, thinking the church at just the country club 0:37:06.320 --> 0:37:09.600 that I come to. It can be years till somebody 0:37:09.680 --> 0:37:12.280 says wake up, and you realis I've never even shared 0:37:12.360 --> 0:37:15.239 my faith with somebody at all. I think I'm in 0:37:15.239 --> 0:37:18.120 the witness protection program and I'm just going to work 0:37:18.520 --> 0:37:24.160 as a secret believer. You don't know when you're asleep 0:37:25.120 --> 0:37:29.200 till somebody says wake I want to give you a 0:37:29.200 --> 0:37:31.960 few signs if somebody comes to place softly to let 0:37:32.000 --> 0:37:38.840 you know I'm landing the plane. I wrote down some 0:37:39.000 --> 0:37:43.000 signs that you're getting spiritually sleepy. This is an exhaustive list, 0:37:43.040 --> 0:37:44.799 but some things I just thought about. You know you're 0:37:44.800 --> 0:37:48.400 getting sleepy spiritually when you have little or no desire 0:37:48.520 --> 0:37:53.600 to pray. That's why Jesus told the disciples, watch and pray, 0:37:54.520 --> 0:37:57.640 Watch and pray. Pray is what keeps us vigilants, what 0:37:57.760 --> 0:38:00.320 keeps us awake and attentive to the pose is in 0:38:00.400 --> 0:38:04.120 the plans of God. You know you're getting sleepy spiritually. 0:38:04.840 --> 0:38:06.960 If you have a loss of appetite for the Word 0:38:07.360 --> 0:38:11.000 of God. You're losing your appetite for the word. That 0:38:11.080 --> 0:38:14.080 might be a sign you're getting sleepy. Anybody in there 0:38:14.080 --> 0:38:18.280 ever tried to eat healthy after eating bad, isn't youre crazy? 0:38:18.480 --> 0:38:20.480 How it's nasty at first, But if you stay consistent, 0:38:20.560 --> 0:38:23.960 you start craving what You're like, come on, the first 0:38:24.000 --> 0:38:26.239 time you eat that kill, You're like, this is ridiculous. 0:38:27.600 --> 0:38:29.879 You stay consistent, You're like, you know what you take 0:38:29.960 --> 0:38:32.719 kill all today. I'm feeling that. It's the same with 0:38:32.760 --> 0:38:35.520 the Word of God. You start craving what you eat. 0:38:37.200 --> 0:38:39.240 You know you're getting sleepy spiritually. If you're no longer 0:38:39.320 --> 0:38:47.520 convicted of willful sin, when it doesn't feel anymore like 0:38:47.560 --> 0:38:50.439 a sin and you don't have conviction, that's a sign 0:38:51.280 --> 0:38:53.880 you know you're getting sleepy. When you have a desire 0:38:53.960 --> 0:38:58.800 to be served rather than serving others, you might be 0:38:58.880 --> 0:39:04.400 getting sleepy. If you easily offended, you might be getting sleepy. 0:39:04.400 --> 0:39:10.879 If you're avoiding accountability, you might begin sleepy. If you're 0:39:10.920 --> 0:39:17.520 consistently comparing yourself to other people, you might be getting sleepy. 0:39:17.640 --> 0:39:22.799 If you're spreading or entertaining gossip. That's why someone will 0:39:22.840 --> 0:39:27.080 sleep with my mouth open, I got something to say 0:39:27.520 --> 0:39:32.440 about somebody else. That's a sign getting sleepy. You might 0:39:32.440 --> 0:39:37.120 begetting sleepy, hear me. If you've isolated yourself from the 0:39:37.120 --> 0:39:42.759 community of believers. The enemy wants you to be isolated 0:39:43.600 --> 0:39:47.360 so you can go to sleep. And this is my 0:39:47.560 --> 0:39:51.080 issue with this text. This is my indictment against the 0:39:51.160 --> 0:39:54.080 people that are were in that room that day, because 0:39:54.120 --> 0:39:58.480 if Eudicus is sitting in a window seat, if Eudicus 0:39:58.560 --> 0:40:01.120 is sitting there in that window, see, I just want 0:40:01.120 --> 0:40:04.080 to know, how come nobody in that room walked up 0:40:04.080 --> 0:40:06.840 to Eudicus and said, hey, man, I'll see you dozen 0:40:07.120 --> 0:40:09.960 that's not a good place to sit. How come nobody 0:40:10.000 --> 0:40:13.600 in that room said Eudicus, I wouldn't sit there, stand 0:40:13.640 --> 0:40:16.680 over here by me. How come nobody in that room 0:40:17.000 --> 0:40:19.439 just took a moment to say, Udicus, I've been there before, 0:40:19.520 --> 0:40:21.920 and I worked all day too. Stand right next to me, 0:40:22.120 --> 0:40:24.720 and let's keep each other away. The Bible even says 0:40:24.719 --> 0:40:27.760 he was a young person. How come no older person, 0:40:28.040 --> 0:40:30.960 somebody from another generation should have just gone up to 0:40:31.000 --> 0:40:33.880 Eudicus and said, Eudicus, that's a horrible place to say. 0:40:34.000 --> 0:40:35.480 Let me tell you something. I used to be young. 0:40:35.640 --> 0:40:37.880 You better stand over here by me. I'm trying to 0:40:37.920 --> 0:40:40.759 tell somebody, this is why you need the church, This 0:40:40.800 --> 0:40:43.319 is why you need community. Because we don't know when 0:40:43.360 --> 0:40:46.440 we're getting sleepy, we don't know when we're dozing. All 0:40:46.680 --> 0:40:49.520 so I need somebody around me to say, you got 0:40:49.520 --> 0:40:52.320 some mu's purpose on your life. You can't sit there. 0:40:52.440 --> 0:40:54.640 You got too much a nunhing on your life. You 0:40:54.760 --> 0:40:57.839 can't go there. No, you can't cat them. No, you 0:40:57.920 --> 0:41:01.600 can't lift that low you're calling it. Do I need 0:41:01.640 --> 0:41:07.440 somebody to tell me when I'm falling a thing? Is 0:41:07.480 --> 0:41:13.000 there anybody in that room? And I had enough concern 0:41:13.120 --> 0:41:19.439 to say, Udicus, don't sit there, Eudicus, there's another place. 0:41:19.600 --> 0:41:23.000 How to pick Unicus here and lean home in. Let's 0:41:23.040 --> 0:41:26.120 stay awake. I know you wanted to be here. Uticus. 0:41:26.960 --> 0:41:28.640 The fact that you're in the room shows me how 0:41:28.760 --> 0:41:33.399 much you love God, get just tired. It worked all 0:41:33.480 --> 0:41:38.120 day and Paul's going a long time, So just stand 0:41:38.160 --> 0:41:40.000 by me and don't sit in the window seat. This 0:41:40.040 --> 0:41:43.439 is why when you need the church, because I don't 0:41:43.440 --> 0:41:47.120 know when I'm dozing off, I need somebody to tell 0:41:47.160 --> 0:41:53.480 me wake come. Nobody saw Uticus sitting in the window, 0:41:54.360 --> 0:41:56.239 and I'm even wondering if they knew when he fell 0:41:56.280 --> 0:42:01.440 out the window. I'm curious. Were they enamored by the 0:42:01.440 --> 0:42:04.520 great preaching of the apostle Paul that they didn't even 0:42:04.560 --> 0:42:10.319 notice that Judiku just fell out the window. Have you 0:42:10.520 --> 0:42:13.160 noticed the people that used to be in church that 0:42:13.239 --> 0:42:17.400 aren't here anymore and the reason God puts you in 0:42:17.440 --> 0:42:19.919 their life so you can call them back in the room. 0:42:20.080 --> 0:42:22.239 Are you so concerned with your own life and your 0:42:22.280 --> 0:42:24.960 own blessing and what you need from God that you'd 0:42:25.280 --> 0:42:31.960 know this Eudicus has falling out of the window. I 0:42:32.040 --> 0:42:34.640 wonder if it took the commotion outside to get the 0:42:34.719 --> 0:42:40.080 room to actually notice. Judith kiss is cane and here's 0:42:40.120 --> 0:42:42.160 what hew else. I know something happened in the room 0:42:42.600 --> 0:42:46.239 that breaks my heart. I think the people in the room, 0:42:46.560 --> 0:42:50.160 when they noticed Eudachus was down there, didn't do anything. 0:42:51.480 --> 0:42:55.000 They just looked out the window. I'll tell you how 0:42:55.040 --> 0:42:56.480 I know it in the moment. But isn't that what 0:42:56.560 --> 0:43:00.520 church people do today? I love the church? Crazy? How 0:43:00.600 --> 0:43:02.480 sometimes when somebody who's falling out of the window, we 0:43:02.520 --> 0:43:05.640 will stay in the room, you got the window and 0:43:05.760 --> 0:43:09.880 go home. Can you believe that shouldn't have sat there? 0:43:10.680 --> 0:43:13.120 I wouldn't have sat there. I would never do that. 0:43:13.160 --> 0:43:14.960 In fact, let me take somebody just so they can 0:43:15.000 --> 0:43:16.600 be praying for you to get and let them know 0:43:16.840 --> 0:43:22.399 what happened. Isn't it crazy? Now? Some of those people 0:43:22.440 --> 0:43:25.440 who are falling away, we stand at a distance and 0:43:25.480 --> 0:43:28.839 look out the window, talking about how they fell, talking 0:43:28.880 --> 0:43:31.520 about how they shouldn't have sat there. But thank God 0:43:31.600 --> 0:43:35.359 for the apostle Paul. Thank God for Paul, because the 0:43:35.360 --> 0:43:39.080 Bible says perhaps the most powerful words in that passage. 0:43:39.200 --> 0:43:41.760 While everybody else was in the room looking at Uticus 0:43:41.800 --> 0:43:44.400 through the window, the Bible says, what Paul did. The 0:43:44.440 --> 0:43:48.040 Bible says that Paul went down. Paul is showing you 0:43:48.239 --> 0:43:51.080 what a believer it's supposed to do. Paul is showing 0:43:51.080 --> 0:43:54.080 you what ministry really is. That when somebody has falling 0:43:54.080 --> 0:43:56.160 out of the window and gone down and made a 0:43:56.200 --> 0:43:59.000 bad decision. You don't send in judgment from the window. 0:43:59.160 --> 0:44:02.640 The Bible says that Paul Witch down. You want to 0:44:02.680 --> 0:44:05.400 know what ministry looks like. Ministry doesn't start on a 0:44:05.440 --> 0:44:09.080 platform or a stage. Ministry is coming down to where 0:44:09.200 --> 0:44:12.359 people are who have fallen an approaches, and you gotta 0:44:12.440 --> 0:44:15.120 let them know. We save a God who's the resurrection 0:44:16.239 --> 0:44:18.879 and the life. You don't think his life is over, 0:44:19.160 --> 0:44:22.320 but it's not over. You're theist. You can live a 0:44:22.440 --> 0:44:24.400 den And I don't know who this message is for, 0:44:24.800 --> 0:44:26.840 but maybe the other people have told you that the 0:44:26.960 --> 0:44:30.279 marriage is over, the kusiness is over, your child, your 0:44:30.360 --> 0:44:32.560 life is over. But I tend to tell you the 0:44:32.600 --> 0:44:36.120 devil is a liar. God is enough time. Until God 0:44:36.280 --> 0:44:44.240 is time, he can raise anything back to life. Here's 0:44:44.360 --> 0:44:50.960 the resurrection and the life. Tell me, I'm learning more 0:44:51.000 --> 0:44:54.479 and more every day. The industry is not about being 0:44:54.560 --> 0:45:02.080 not damn. It's looking Britian preaching illustrious when you do 0:45:02.239 --> 0:45:08.880 like the apostle Paul who went down, threw himself on 0:45:08.960 --> 0:45:09.560 the young. 0:45:09.360 --> 0:45:27.200 Man and said, he's not dead, there's still life in him. 0:45:27.280 --> 0:45:32.120 Isn't this what our savior did for us? And when 0:45:32.120 --> 0:45:36.920 we were falling, stuck in our sin. She did not 0:45:37.000 --> 0:45:41.120 try to redeem us from heaven. The King of Clarie 0:45:42.120 --> 0:45:47.680 came down, put on human's skin to feel what we feel, 0:45:48.520 --> 0:45:51.080 go through what we go through, and when humanity had 0:45:51.120 --> 0:45:54.839 no hope, we were all unicus. He said, I'll throw 0:45:54.960 --> 0:45:59.520 my life on a cross, and I'll get up from 0:45:59.520 --> 0:46:03.040 the grave. So then when I get up, is proof 0:46:03.080 --> 0:46:07.080 that no matter what has held you down, you can 0:46:07.120 --> 0:46:17.719 get up to It's crazy because this says that this 0:46:17.880 --> 0:46:22.320 gathering was on the first day of the week, Sunday. 0:46:22.440 --> 0:46:25.040 Just like this. This is a change. This is the 0:46:25.080 --> 0:46:32.160 first biblically recorded gathering on a Sunday. Sabbath used to 0:46:32.200 --> 0:46:34.560 be a Saturday. Why is it changing because they changed 0:46:34.560 --> 0:46:39.840 it to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, and then they 0:46:39.960 --> 0:46:45.400 just laid Jesus to give them a resurrection on the 0:46:45.480 --> 0:46:49.319 day they're celebrating the Tower of his resurrection. I say 0:46:49.360 --> 0:46:52.160 nothing to say, Eudicus. All hope is not lost. You 0:46:52.200 --> 0:46:56.240 are not defined by your mistake. Even Eudikis's life became 0:46:56.280 --> 0:46:59.200 a testimony that God steal in the business of horaising 0:46:59.239 --> 0:47:07.080 things that were dead back to life. I didn't know 0:47:08.120 --> 0:47:11.879 I fell asleep. But I also didn't know that even 0:47:11.920 --> 0:47:16.600 after I fail, God could bring me back to life. 0:47:16.800 --> 0:47:19.560 I'm gonna ask every head be bowed and eyes be 0:47:19.640 --> 0:47:26.120 closed today. Father, I thank you today for your word. Lord. 0:47:26.160 --> 0:47:29.759 I thank you that you don't give up on us, 0:47:30.960 --> 0:47:34.319 that when everybody else says it's over, just like the 0:47:34.360 --> 0:47:38.160 Apostle Paul, you come down to where we are, they say, no, 0:47:38.360 --> 0:47:43.160 there's still life there. Father. Today I'm praying for my brother, 0:47:43.280 --> 0:47:47.200 my sister. I don't know what location. I don't know 0:47:47.200 --> 0:47:49.799 if they're Epham, but I do know you're speaking to them, 0:47:50.960 --> 0:47:53.520 and today is not just another sermon. It's their wake 0:47:53.640 --> 0:47:57.880 up God. God. We're so weak, we're made of flesh. 0:47:57.880 --> 0:48:00.799 We don't know when we're dosing off. God. I thank 0:48:00.840 --> 0:48:05.440 you that you always give us wake up calls. God, 0:48:05.560 --> 0:48:09.279 thank you for community that will help us to wake up. 0:48:10.120 --> 0:48:13.640 Don't tell us, don't sit there, it's a dangerous place 0:48:13.680 --> 0:48:18.040 to send. Or let us be attentive to what it 0:48:18.120 --> 0:48:20.800 is you're doing in us and what you want to 0:48:20.840 --> 0:48:24.040 do through us. Heads about ours are closed today, But 0:48:24.880 --> 0:48:28.560 I'm wondering if this is somebody's wake up call, whether 0:48:28.640 --> 0:48:32.319 in this room or watch them online and you need 0:48:32.320 --> 0:48:36.160 to surrender your life to this beautiful savior, hear me. 0:48:36.239 --> 0:48:38.440 Maybe you think you got to get yourself together to 0:48:38.520 --> 0:48:41.799 come to him, but you can't get yourself together. You 0:48:42.120 --> 0:48:46.799 just didn't have time to get himself together. You don't 0:48:46.800 --> 0:48:48.920 clean yourself up to come to a savior. You just 0:48:48.960 --> 0:48:51.919 come to him as you are. And so what heads 0:48:51.920 --> 0:48:54.960 about and ours closed? Across every location? If you've never 0:48:55.000 --> 0:48:58.440 surrendered your life to Jesus, today's your day to come home. 0:48:59.400 --> 0:49:03.279 He's the as arection and the life doesn't matter what 0:49:03.280 --> 0:49:06.279 the enemy is telling you it's dead. He can breathe 0:49:06.360 --> 0:49:10.680 life back into it. And he didn't come just to 0:49:10.719 --> 0:49:15.680 make bad people good. No, he came to make dead 0:49:15.760 --> 0:49:19.719 people come alive. You can have eternal life today. So 0:49:19.800 --> 0:49:22.080 when heads bout on, iyes close. If that's you, he said, 0:49:22.080 --> 0:49:24.640 Pastor Robert, include me in this clothing prayer. I need 0:49:24.680 --> 0:49:26.839 to surrender my life to Jesus. Would you just lift 0:49:26.920 --> 0:49:29.080 up your hand high enough and long enough to where 0:49:29.120 --> 0:49:31.600 I could see it? Thank you? Yeah, hands are going 0:49:31.680 --> 0:49:34.320 up all over this room, wherever you're watching, across every location. 0:49:34.480 --> 0:49:37.479 Thank you Jesus, Thank you God. Can we just pray 0:49:37.520 --> 0:49:39.400 this prayer as one big family. I'm gonna give you 0:49:39.480 --> 0:49:41.560 the words, but you just say it from your heart. 0:49:41.600 --> 0:49:45.680 Would you say this, say Jesus, I need you. I 0:49:45.680 --> 0:49:51.960 cannot do life without you because you are my life. Jesus, 0:49:51.960 --> 0:49:56.239 I believe that you are the son of God. You 0:49:56.360 --> 0:50:00.400 live the life that I was supposed to live. You 0:50:00.600 --> 0:50:04.960 died to death that I was supposed to die. You 0:50:04.960 --> 0:50:09.839 took my place. So my response is to give you 0:50:09.880 --> 0:50:14.920 all of me, forgive me of my sin, make me 0:50:15.120 --> 0:50:19.560 brand new from this moment, for I'm walking with you 0:50:20.480 --> 0:50:25.160 in Jesus' name. Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen. Come on, if 0:50:25.200 --> 0:50:27.920 you meant what your praise, can we give King Jesus 0:50:27.920 --> 0:50:30.360 praise today? Oh? Come on, you can do better than 0:50:30.400 --> 0:50:33.120 that to your praise. I'm like you know, you got 0:50:33.160 --> 0:50:36.520 your breath back, you got your life back. Come on, 0:50:36.600 --> 0:50:39.960 give them a real, real resurrection and praise today. 0:50:41.480 --> 0:50:44.000 And I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, 0:50:44.560 --> 0:50:47.160 make sure to share it and subscribe so we can 0:50:47.200 --> 0:50:49.759 get you all of these new messages as soon as 0:50:49.800 --> 0:50:52.600 they're available. I also want to take a moment and 0:50:52.680 --> 0:50:54.440 thank all of you who are a part of Elevation, 0:50:54.960 --> 0:50:58.279 whether you support us financially or serve with us or 0:50:58.719 --> 0:51:01.399 just share these messages. Is because of you that we're 0:51:01.440 --> 0:51:04.359 able to reach people all around the world. And if 0:51:04.400 --> 0:51:06.879 you want more information on how to be a part 0:51:06.920 --> 0:51:10.839 of Elevation, click the link in the description. Thanks again 0:51:10.880 --> 0:51:13.319 for listening. Make sure to leave a review, share the 0:51:13.360 --> 0:51:14.640 message and subscribe. 0:51:14.960 --> 0:51:15.600 God bless you.